BCAC — Project Assistance: Professional Performing Arts Organizations

• Project summary, objectives, and outcomes
• Project timeline or work plan
• Project team table
• Balanced project budget
• Support material and required letters

Who is eligible?

• Professional performing arts organizations
• Indigenous community organizations
• Indigenous governments
• Arts activator organizations
• Arts or curatorial collectives

Who is not eligible

• Organizations currently receiving BC Arts Council Operating Assistance
• Private or for-profit entities
• Educational institutions and schools
• Community choirs affiliated with educational, religious, or military institutions
• Collectives with fewer than three members

Eligible expenses

• Project-related artist and practitioner payments
• Production and realization costs tied to the project
• Development and presentation costs for eligible activities
• Support material or service costs directly tied to the project

Ineligible Costs and Activities

• Operating or ongoing expenses
• Capital costs, including construction and renovation
• Equipment purchases over $2,500 or unrelated to the project
• Subsistence costs for artists or practitioners
• Deficits, surpluses, contingency, feasibility, or seed costs

Eligible geographic areas

• British Columbia

• Reconciliation, equity, diversity, inclusion, and access: 20%
• Artistic and cultural contribution, engagement, and impact: 50%
• Feasibility: 30%

• Step 1: Review guidelines and prepare the project
  • Read the program guidelines and checklist.
  • Confirm the project and applicant are eligible.
• Step 2: Register or update your profile
  • New applicants must register in the online Grant Management System.
  • Returning applicants must update their organization or collective profile.
• Step 3: Complete the application
  • Fill in the project information, budget, team table, and inventory form.
  • Upload the required support material and letters.
• Step 4: Submit online
  • Submit the application through the Grant Management System.
  • Applications close at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on May 20, 2026.

• Applications are reviewed for eligibility first.
• Eligible applications are assessed by a peer panel.
• Applications are ranked and funding is awarded based on that ranking.
• Results are sent by email about 16 weeks after the deadline.
• Final reports are required after project completion.

• Applications are assessed through peer review.
• Funding priority may be given to designated priority groups.
• Only one application per year is allowed per organization or collective.
• Successful applicants must acknowledge BC Arts Council and the Province of British Columbia in promotional materials.